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CITY HOSPITAL BUILDING MAY 18, 2007

GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ADDITION (BUILT 1951) MAY 18, 2007

ORIGINAL NURSING SCHOOL BUILDING MAY 18, 2007

STONE WALLS MAY 18, 2007

GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 1951 LAMP POSTS

THESE HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE PROPERTY.
THEY WERE LATER SOLD AT A GASTON COUNTY SURPLUS SALE, AND THE BASES REMAIN IN PLACE AT THE OLD HOSPITAL. THE PURCHASER OFFERED THEM TO US AT AN EXORBITANT PRICE, WHICH WE COULD NOT PAY. THEY PROBABLY THEN TRAVELED TO THE SCRAP YARD.
THIS TYPE OF LOSS IN ENSURED WHEN EACH SUCCESSIVE GENERATION IS NOT TAUGHT TO CHERISH AND NURTURE  THE VALUES AND TREASURES BEQUEATHED TO THEM BY THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE. 

Gastonia Gazette article August 16, 1956  describing the pending 

construction of the final addition to the old Gaston Memorial Hospital. 

 

GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL DEDICATION 1951

(Photo submitted by Deb Lewis Erwin. Her father, Gordon Lewis, is standing at far left in the color guard. Other color guard members, left to right: Ira Cox, Ralph Jordan, and Lester Kinlaw.)
The Legionnaire in the center of the three seated at right is Ernest R. Morgan. He was the general contractor who built the National Bank of Commerce building in 1956 (demolished for the Conference Center), a city councilman, an Army colonel in World War II, and a Gastonia civic leader. He gave the dedicatory speech for the presentation of the hospital to the county. (Information furnished by his son-in-law, Bill Beam.)  

LISTEN TO THE 1951 DEDICATION OF GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

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THE GASTON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY AUXILIARY ESTABLISHED 1947 (Article courtesy of Deb Lewis Erwin.)

ARTICLES FROM THE 1973 YEARBOOK OF THE GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF NURSING (THE SCHOOL'S FINAL YEAR OF OPERATION) submitted by Deb Lewis Erwin.

SIMS LEGION PARK

MAKE ROOM FOR "THE LEGACY"

"DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH"

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